> an understated update that in other years might have been called a “Snow Leopard release.”

No. It wouldn't. Snow Leopard was two years in the making, and then took another few years to actually become the Snow Leopard people remember.

Fixing some transparency and re-drawing a few icons is not a Snow Leopard release.

Like, which features in this 150000-character blog post actually warrant the title of "Snow Leopard release"?

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TheAmazingRace 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I imagine the author saw this release as "macOS Tahoe but not sucky"

I liken it to Windows Vista and Windows 7. Although fundamentally similar operating systems under the hood, Windows 7 smoothed out Vista's kinks and brought forth additional polish.

	▲	jerlam 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I wouldn't mind if they (unofficially) adopted a tick-tock release cycle. New features on even years, refinement and under-the-hood changes on odd years.

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lattalayta 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think people are referring to the speed improvements touted by Apple https://www.newegg.com/insider/ios-27-performance-boost-ever...